BSI Flora checklist <https://efloraindia.bsi.gov.in/eFlora/speciesDesc_PCL.action?species_id=41252> only gives *Dinetus racemosus* (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. ex Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 2: t. 127. 1825. *Porana racemosa *Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 41. 1824. *Porana malabarica* C.B. Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 223. 1883.
However, POWO and CoL list them separately as per POWO1 <http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77077676-1>, POWO 2 <http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267791-1>, CoL1 <http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019/details/species/id/5803656f1b5a8520b0dbcb486ee3c5fc>, CoL2 <http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019/details/species/id/3d1fe5fdcdfbd1ff395c80f37214d6ef> I tried to find out the difference between the two. Could get it on net only in Flora of British India from IBIS Flora: Porana racemosa Roxb. <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/porana-racemosa-roxb-0>: *Roxb. Hort. Beng.* 13, and *Fl. Ind.* i. 466, and ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 41 ; *puberulous or nearly glabrous,* leaves ovate deeply cordate acute, racemes compound dichotomous, bracts at the forks large cordate persistent, *capsule 1/5 in. ellipsoid longer than broad*,* fruiting-sepals equal 1/3-1/2 by 1/8 in.* Jacq. f. Ecl. ii. t. 165 ; Wall. Cat. 1326 ; Don Prodr. 98. ; Wight Ill. t. 168 bis, fig. 9, and Ic. t. 1376 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 107, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 435. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162 ? ; Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1873, 137. Dinetus racemosus, Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 127. SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA alt. 2-6000 ft., common ; from the North-west (Royle) to BHOTAN. KHASIA to MARTABAN ; alt. 2-6000 ft., common. DECCAN PENINSULA ? Forming dense, not lofty, masses. Leaves 2-3 by 1.1/2 in. ; petiole 3/4 in. Racemes lax ; bracts at the forks leafy, sessile, scarious in fruit ; those at the pedicels 1/6 in., linear. *Sepals in flower 1/8 in., linear-oblong, puberulous.* Corolla 1/3-1/2 in., lobed nearly half-way, white. Style linear ; stigmas 2, short, oblong. Capsule apiculate, glabrous ; *fruiting sepals oblong-spathulate, with 3-5 strong longitudinal nerves.*— The “ Snow-creeper ” of the English, one of the most beautiful of Indian plants, the masses of dazzling white flowers resembling snow-patches in the jungle. *It is doubtful whether this plant is found wild in the Deccan;* Wight’s figure represents it, but the fruit in his herbarium was sent to him from N. India. There is no example from the Deccan, all Dalzell’s Porana malabarica C.B.Clarke <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/porana-malabarica-cbclarke-1> (FBI): *Clarke* ; *nearly glabrous,* leaves ovate deeply cordate acute, racemes compound dichotomous, bracts at the forks large cordate persistent, *capsule 1/4 in. obovoid,* *fruit-sepals equal attaining 1 by 1/2 in. elliptic. *P. racemosa, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162.—Porana n. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. F. & T. WEST DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bombay, Dalzell ; Malabar and Concan, Stocks, Law ; Canara and Mysore, Law, &c. Closely allied to *P. racemosa*. *Fruiting-sepals sometimes only 2/3 by 1/3 in., but always differing widely from the much smaller narrow one of P. racemosa.* Porana malabarica C.B.Clarke <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/porana-malabarica-cbclarke-1> (The Flora of the Bombay Presidency): *C.B.Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I.* v. 4 (1883) p. 223. An extensive climber ; stems and branches slender, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 2.1/2-5 by 1.1/2-4.1/2 in., ovate, deeply cordate, acuminate, very acute, thin, with a few scattered hairs above, glabrous or nearly so and reticulately veined beneath ; petioles 1/2-3 in. long, slender, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers white, in lax racemes or panicles ; bracts at the forks large, leafy, cordate, persistent, those of the pedicels smaller upwards, the uppermost linear ; pedicels slender, 1/4-1/3 in. long.* Sepals 1/8-1/6 in. long, more or less pubescent, narrowly ovate-oblong, subacute when in flower, all much and almost equally enlarged up to 3/4 by 3/8 in. or even more when in fruit, often tinged with pink, glabrous, persistent, strongly nerved and reticulately veined between the nerves. *Corolla rather more than 1/2 in. long, divided about 1/2-way down into 5 ovate acute lobes. Stigma shortly 2-lobed. Capsules 3/8 in. long, subcylindric, scarious, slightly depressed at the apex round a raised somewhat pyramidal centre. Seed 1/4 in. long, oblong, reddish-brown, glabrous. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 172 ; Peter, in Eugl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf, v. 4, 3 A, p. 24, fig. 11,C ; Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 328. *Porana racemosa*, Grah. Cat. p. 133 (not of Roxb.) ; *Dalz. & Gibs*. p. 162.—Flowers ; Oct. Vern. *Bhauri*. KONKAN : *Stocks *!, *Law* ! ; Matheran, *H. M. Birdwood*. Deccan : Parghat, *Dalzell *! ; Mahableshwar, *Cooke* !, *H. M. Birdwood *; Panchgani, *Woodrow *!—Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). I looked at the images in our site <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/02/26/dinetus-racemosus/>, and I find it really difficult to segregate them as the difference is mainly based on fruit sepals. *However, for the time being we can keep our wild images from S.India as Porana malabarica.* On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 at 15:51, '[email protected]' via efloraofindia < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Mahadeswara ji. > Satish Nikam > > On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 5:10:43 PM UTC+5:30 Mahadeswara wrote: > >> ID is correct . >> >> On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 9:04:01 AM UTC+5:30 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Friends >>> Happy Diwali! >>> To me it differs from D.racemosa which I had photographed earlier >>> especially the petals which are very pointed. >>> Regards >>> Satish Nikam >>> >>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad >>> <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/bf58eaa9-80a1-435d-90d0-3c40259eaa56n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/bf58eaa9-80a1-435d-90d0-3c40259eaa56n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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